Wellcome Library

14/05/2018

From Monday 21st May we'll be posting our Library updates over on the Wellcome Collection page. Head over there for combined Collection and Library content! See you soon!

23/03/2018

As usual, the Library will be closed over the long weekend this Easter. Make sure you check our opening times before visiting!

Opening times for the Wellcome Library, London. Open Monday - Saturday. Any forthcoming closures are listed so you can plan accordingly.

17/03/2018

Come along to our next Library Insight talk this coming Thursday - all welcome! Elma Brenner on 'Untapped: Water and health, 1350-1550' https://wellcomecollection.org/events/WoK_JioAACoANemu

13/03/2018

Come along to hear Elma Brenner's Insight talk and see some fabulous books, prints and manuscripts

Book now!

In this event, you’ll hear Dr Elma Brenner talk about medieval people's ambivalent relationship with water and you’ll see a selection of early manuscripts, early printed books and prints.

01/03/2018

Wellcome Library will close at 18:00 on Thursday this week so that our visitors and colleagues are able to travel home more safely. If you have any questions or concerns, please email [email protected] or phone +44 (0)20 7611 8722.

27/02/2018

Details of tonight's History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar. All welcome for the final seminar of the season!

Dr Dror Weil (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) - Arabo-Persian physiological theories in late Imperial China

The last seminar in the 2017–18 History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series takes place on Tuesday 27 February. Speaker: Dr Dror Weil (Max Planck In

22/02/2018

Come along to our next History of Pre Modern Medicine on Tuesday - all welcome!

Speaker: Dr Dror Weil (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)

Arabo-Persian physiological theories in late Imperial China

The last seminar in the 2017–18 History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series takes place on Tuesday 27 February. Speaker: Dr Dror Weil (Max Planck In

08/02/2018

Details of next week's seminar! All welcome - come along!

The next seminar in the 2017–18 History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series takes place on Tuesday 13 February. Speaker: Dr William Tullett (Instit

01/02/2018

We're very excited to be hosting this conference later this month!

Broadcasting Health and Disease: Bodies, markets and television, 1950s–1980s An ERC BodyCapital international conference to be held at the Wellcome Trust, 19

29/01/2018

Details of tomorrow's History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar.

All welcome - hope to see you there!

The next seminar in the 2017–18 History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series takes place on Tuesday 30 January. Speaker: Professor Guido Alfani (Bo

25/01/2018

Details of the next in our series of History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminars!

Professor Guido Alfani (Bocconi University, Milan) will be speaking on 'Plague in Italy and Europe during the 17th century: epidemiology and impact'

All welcome!

Abstract:

The next seminar in the 2017–18 History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series takes place on Tuesday 30 January. Speaker: Professor Guido Alfani (Bo

12/01/2018

All the details on Tuesday's History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar with Dr Catherine Rider on 'Medieval Ideas about Infertility and Old Age' - hope to see you there!

The next seminar in the 2017–18 History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series takes place on Tuesday 16 January. Speaker: Dr Catherine Rider (Univer